Graham Arnold

Experience

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  NatWest

  Sept 1979 - Mar 1996

  Retail and Corporate Banking roles

  Retail and Corporate Banking roles that were principally customer service and lending related.

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  Royal Bank of Scotland Business

  Jul 2006 - Sept 2009

  Risk Manager, Global Transaction Services Operations

  Worked with business heads to support and drive operational risk management across UK and EMEA. Continuous improvement of the operational and regulatory risk and control framework. Proactively identifying improvements to controls to reflect changes in process, operating model or risk appetite. worked with the wider business risk community to identify best practice and implement appropriate common approaches, tools and techniques. Proactive monitoring and management of GTS Operations performance against key risk indicators. Gap analysis of revised Financial Crime policies for Anti Money Laundering and Sanctions. Show less

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  RBS

  Sept 2009 - Nov 2016

  - Supporting bau and change risk management for Operations and Technology whilst countries in the region are wound down or sold as part of the Bank's strategy to become a UK-centric bank.- Leading the management of operational risk and control ensuring compliance with relevant corporate and regulatory requirements and policies. - Ensure the business units operate in accordance with stipulated risk management policies and procedures including operational risk. Ensure adequate monitoring of risk and control metrics.- Supporting rapid organisational change / downsizing to meet the business strategy including staff redeployment / exit management.ACHIEVEMENTS- Built and implemented robust control and assurance framework around capital control requirements brought in by Greece.- Centralisation of reconciliations and balance sheet substantiation out of individual countries into a hub location to improve control and oversight during business wind down.- Review and reduction in assurance activities to reflect business wind down and achieve ongoing efficiencies.- Active involvement in various projects to effect business strategy to wind down and sell majority of business across EMEA. Plus mandatory regulatory projects such as the European Deposit Guarantee Scheme. Show less - Drove the strategic risk agenda whilst supporting revenue growth, delivering business capabilities and achieving cost synergies and productivity gains.- Supported remediation of backlog in KYC Periodic Reviews of high risk clients and PEPs.- Gap analysis and then roll out of new Anti Bribery and Corruption policy across EMEA.- Developed and maintain risk assessments to identify and assess the material risks that arise in the area of responsibility.- Maintained and oversaw corporate governance standards across the business.- Drove the delivery of an effective and embedded operational risk framework across the region.- Built and drove implementation and management of the operational and regulatory risk control framework supporting and challenging business unit executives on its efficient implementation.- Developed regional risk appetite statements and metrics to support ongoing review.- Identification and escalation of emerging and upstream risks through the analysis of business intelligence and process change.- Sponsorship and active involvement in various business and regulatory change initiatives at a country, regional and global level using Prince2 methodology.ACHIEVEMENTS- Active involvement in Executive Steering Group and projects to develop the bank's contingency arrangements in the event of a country exiting the European Union (EU) or the possibility of contagion across a number of EU countries providing me with a good skill set to support Brexit activity.- Gap analysis against the bank's conduct risk policies plus the development and implementation of action plans to address these.- Development of a remote assurance testing team in a hub location to realise efficiencies at a country level. Show less

  • Head of Controls for Capital Resolution Services, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

    Jul 2015 - Nov 2016

  • Head of Control, Europe Middle East & Africa

    Sept 2009 - Jun 2015
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  GM Arnold Associates Limited

  Dec 2016 - Sept 2017

  Director

  Provider of specialist Risk, Control and Project Management contracting service

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  Office for National Statistics

  Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  - Development of strategic approach and methodology for scenario analysis covering scenarios affecting the success of the Census Transformation Programme or the 2019 census rehearsal and the 2021 census.- Identification and development of a suite of impact/ probability weighted scenarios.- Facilitation of scenario analysis events, documentation of the outputs, tracking risks and mitigating actions and obtaining approval through governance bodies. - Identification, prioritization and development of Operational Risk Contingency Plans & Scenarios that could impact operations during the 2019 Rehearsal and 2021 Census - Development of key risk indicators for the Programme Risk Committee- Development of an integrated testing strategy between contingency plans, operational readiness and incident management

  • Scenario Analysis & Risk Specialist

    Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Head of Scenario Analysis & Risk, Census Operations

    Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
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  Self-employed

  Nov 2018 - now

  Director
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  G M Arnold Associates Limited

  Nov 2018 - now

  Director

  Currently seeking new contracting or permanent opportunities requiring Risk & Control or Project Management / PMO experience

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  Office for National Statistics

  Jun 2019 - now

  Project Manager